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Post by embla on Aug 20, 2014 3:12:57 GMT -5
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Post by embla on Aug 20, 2014 3:27:59 GMT -5
A lot of Phantom-fans posting pics on instagram. Probably one of the most popular Butler-topics on that place.  |
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Post by So on Aug 20, 2014 3:32:08 GMT -5
Yes we went on a media escapade and never bothered to find out what we each thought of the movie! I like it |
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Post by embla on Aug 20, 2014 3:55:15 GMT -5
Me too. And that`s kind of strange because normally I loathe musicals... Didn`t see it until many years after it was released. Discovered it by chance, noticing, "hey, it`s that guy from 300. Can he sing? Maybe worth checking it out."  I knew i liked the music, (who hasn`t heard those songs before? ) and I`ve also got a "thing" for that time-period. And Phantom of the Opera, story-wise. One of the old classics. Almost like Bram Stoker`s big "Hero".  I gave it a go, and it turned out to be one of my favourite movies of all times!  I even went out buying it! |
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Post by hellogirls on Aug 21, 2014 15:19:58 GMT -5
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Post by embla on Aug 22, 2014 16:28:34 GMT -5
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Post by embla on Aug 22, 2014 16:29:07 GMT -5
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Post by embla on Aug 23, 2014 8:18:56 GMT -5
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Post by hellogirls on Aug 23, 2014 17:15:09 GMT -5
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Post by hellogirls on Aug 23, 2014 17:19:09 GMT -5
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Post by hellogirls on Aug 23, 2014 17:28:08 GMT -5
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Post by embla on Aug 23, 2014 17:36:33 GMT -5
Hm, in a way it`s quite strange that the French author of the original story choosed to use Scandinavian names, not just for Christine, but also the phantom... Erik, could he perhaps be aware of, that in the old days, here, "Old Erik" was an expression used when talking about the devil? (You should never mention him by name in those days ) |
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Post by anonimus on Aug 23, 2014 18:05:19 GMT -5
I honestly do not know, I can only tell you what to say about him in the book ... Christine was Scandinavian and moved to France with her father when she was little and there she met for the first time Raul (also a child) while the phantom was born in Persia (or those parts) and he was in the service of a pascià ...for him, the phantom had created a system of counterweights to move the walls, in the case of the thieves had tried to steal his valuables, they would be trapped while for the daughter of pascià, he had created "the room of mirrors ", a room completely covered with mirrors, with an exit door hidden that opened with the counterweights,in which there was an iron tree ... inside the room was placed a person and for the enjoyment of the little sovereign, the phantom was crazy about the victim (in that room he could create all weather events and that he wanted all temperatures) and then kill the victims with a noose around his neck and the small sovereign was looking at him through a trapdoor placed on the ceiling of the room ... upon completion of the palace, the phantom escapes because the pasha, for fear that he might rob him, had ordered to kill him ... then he arrived in France and met Christine ... just at that moment he started to call him Erik because he liked the name and because as Christine was Scandinavian and he wanted to feel closer to her...he chose his name, his mother rejected him at birth because of his deformity and left him without even giving him a name...
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Post by embla on Aug 23, 2014 18:16:48 GMT -5
LOL! Then he did choose the perfect name for himself.
It says: Watch out for "old-Erik"
BTW: It`s a common name here. I know a lot of Eriks. And no one is associating them with the Devil. |
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Post by embla on Aug 25, 2014 2:34:56 GMT -5
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Post by So on Aug 29, 2014 2:46:21 GMT -5
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Post by So on Aug 29, 2014 2:47:39 GMT -5
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Post by So on Aug 29, 2014 3:01:00 GMT -5
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Post by So on Aug 29, 2014 3:01:37 GMT -5
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Post by So on Aug 29, 2014 3:02:03 GMT -5
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